Biomaterial Database

Professional Medical Conduct Reform Act. 1990

S P Murphy

Nash & Company, Pittsburgh, PA 15222.

A new law significantly increases the regulation of New Jersey physicians and heightens the State Board of Medical Examiners scrutiny of potentially impaired and incompetent physicians. The law is a comprehensive expansion of New Jersey's physician peer review.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D007883	Legislation, Medical	Laws and regulations, pertaining to the field of medicine, proposed for enactment or enacted by a legislative body.	Medical Legislation
D008007	Licensure, Medical	The granting of a license to practice medicine.	Medical Licensure
D009515	New Jersey	State bounded on the north by New York and Pennsylvania, on the east by New York and the Atlantic Ocean, on the south by Delaware Bay, and on the west by Pennsylvania.
D010815	Physician Impairment	The physician's inability to practice medicine with reasonable skill and safety to the patient due to the physician's disability. Common causes include alcohol and drug abuse, mental illness, physical disability, and senility.	Impairment, Physician,Impairments, Physician,Physician Impairments
D010820	Physicians	Individuals licensed to practice medicine.	Physician
D011361	Professional Competence	The capability to perform the duties of one's profession generally, or to perform a particular professional task, with skill of an acceptable quality.	Competence, Professional,Generalization of Expertise,Technical Expertise,Expertise Generalization,Expertise, Technical
D006801	Humans	Members of the species Homo sapiens.	Homo sapiens,Man (Taxonomy),Human,Man, Modern,Modern Man